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Explores Strauss's teaching on natural right and the tradition of political philosophy and how his perspectives have influenced European and American liberal theory.
The Crisis of Liberal Democracy is the first book devoted exclusively to Leo Strauss, one of the most influential and controversial political thinkers of the twentieth century. This work includes essays which illustrate and evaluate Strauss' teaching on natural right and the tradition of political philosophy and demonstrate how Strauss' perspectives have influenced European and American liberal theory. In keeping with Strauss' commitment to philosophical inquiry, essays critical of his work are included as well.
"This book challenges the primacy of the behavioral persuasion in political science, documents the influence of Leo Strauss, and provides ready access to a number of important articles." — Dante Germino, University of Virginia
Foreword
Joseph Cropsey
Preface
Introduction
I. The Work of Leo Strauss— An Appraisal
An Overview
Leo Strauss: Three Quarrels, Three Questions, One LifeOn Natural Right
Michael Platt
The Problem of Natural Right and the Fundamental Alternatives in Natural Right and HistoryA Critique
Victor GourevitchEvolutionary Biology and Natural Right
Roger D. Masters
Political Theory and Politics: The Case of LEo Strauss and Liberal Democracy
John. G. Gunnel
II. Issues in Liberalism
Strauss on Liberalism
Leo Strauss and the Crisis of Liberal DemocracyStraussian Applications
Hilail GildinA Reply to Gildin
Victor GourevitchA Response to Gourevitch
Hilail Gildlin
Aristotle and Machiavelli on Liberality
Richard H. CoxAristotle and the Moderns on Freedom and Equality
Laurence BernsThe Innocent, the Ignorant, and the Rational: The Content of Lockian Consent
Judith A. BestNihilism and Modern Democracy in the Thought of Nietzsche
Thomas L. PangleWhy Wasn't Weber a Nihilist?
Robert Eden
III. Liberalism and the American Experience
Private Interest and Public Choice
The Crisis of Liberal Democracy: Liberality and Democratic CitizenshipEditors and Contributors
Stephen G. SalkeveLiberalism as the Aggregation of Individual Preferences: Problems of Coherence and Rationality in Social Choice
William T. Bluhm
Index